A Newspeak Inside A Doublethink Wrapped In A Memory Hole

Not one week after the WTO issued an interim ruling finding U.S. tariffs on steel imports in breach of WTO rules and regs (a ruling the U.S. plans to appeal), the United States is complaining about Korean microchip subsidies.

In the steel tariff case, the operative words are: "...the WTO settlement body process is 'fundamentally broken'," and that the ruling is an "unalloyed [no pun intended?] assault on United States sovereignty."

In the microchip case, the operative words are: "DRAM makers in the United States may be injured by Korean subsidies."

Posted by Eddie Tews at April 1, 2003 01:27 PM